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Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

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Name: William S. Burroughs
Variant Name: William Seward Burroughs, William Lee, Willy Lee
Birth Date: February 5, 1914
Death Date: August 2, 1997
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
14794 words, approx. 49.3 pages
Since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William S. Burroughs has been well known as a legendary figure of the Beat Generation and as an important writer of experimental fiction. As a Beat writer, Burroughs was part of a seminal, postwar literary an...
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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
11474 words, approx. 38.2 pages
Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs first met in Manhattan, New York University sponsored a conference celebrating the legacy of the Beat Generation. Burroughs, whose picture appeared prominently in several places on...
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Biography of William S. Burroughs
7736 words, approx. 25.8 pages
An innovative and controversial author of experimental fiction, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is best known for Naked Lunch (1959), a bizarre account of his fourteen-year drug addiction and a surrealistic indictment of middle-class American mores. Wil...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Nova Express Information
337 words, approx. 1 pages
Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. It features Burroughs' cut-up method of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel, including T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", among others. It is the...


News and Journals
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HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
Marketing a new Nova. (Nova Lighting)
11/18/1996: 540 words, approx. 2 pages
Nova Lighting showed new table lamps and floor lamps made of wood and metal filagree at the Oct 1996 home furnishings show in High Point, NC. The lamps, designed to complement life-style furniture by manufacturers such as Broyhill, also provide accent or mood lighting....
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Guns Magazine
Benelli Nova.
04/01/2000: 1,276 words, approx. 4 pages
This new Italian 12 gauge is a tough, cleverly designed and reliable field gun for turkey or waterfowl. Polymers are beginning to revolutionize shotgun design and manufacturing, and what better place for the future of shotguns to begin than in Italy -- the...
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The New York Observer
Confessions of a Sudoku Junkie
6/12/2007: 490 words, approx. 2 pages
Yes, you read the title correctly. I am addicted to the number puzzle Sudoku. Let me say right away that I am not a serious addict. I’ve never downloaded a game, and I have never bought a Sudoku book. However, when I find a New...


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Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

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